When
a handful of attorneys general launched investigations of ExxonMobil
for climate fraud, I wonder if they had any idea that they would be
attacked for attempting to stifle the company’s right of free speech.

After all, if ExxonMobil publicly downplayed warnings by its own
scientists about the threat posed by burning fossil fuels in its
communications with investors and the general public, it very well may
have committed fraud, which is not protected by the First Amendment.

Legal
experts have cited the case against the tobacco industry as an apt
analogy. For years, tobacco companies emphasized uncertainty about their
products’ risks to stave off government regulations. ExxonMobil
essentially has been doing the same thing. MORE

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Arthur C. Pillsbury early understood the problems facing his generation. His solution applied edge technologies, film and an expanded understanding of the living processes of the natural world, to awaken people to the need to respect the integrity of the natural world.

His work changed the world, but remains to be finished by those of us now living.